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mk  ·  4506 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 83 million Facebook accounts are fakes and dupes
Only 5% legitimate? Were ther rest made by bots?

This is one reason most advertising models are so awful. The motivation becomes numbers. On the other hand, if people pay for the service, the motivation is to improve the service. I don't want to get into a situation where I am focusing on the number of visits we are getting. I want to only worry about the quality of the time spent here.

Not saying that I am planning on charging a fee, but I'm not going to get painted into a corner. That's not why I started this site. Getting hits has no purpose.





lessismore  ·  4506 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yups. Only 5%. I would say that most of them were spam bots. It got so bad that I just started blacklisting whole countries.
mk  ·  4506 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Well, you must have felt mighty blacklisting countries.

I have a forum for my RPG, and the biggest problem I have is with non-bot SEO spammers. I actually feel bad for them. They probably get paid $0.01 per spam post.

lessismore  ·  4506 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I felt like Michael Phelps!!
thenewgreen  ·  4506 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Take that Guam!